HELP PLS How It Feels To Be Colored By Me, By Zora Neale Hurston

1. Describe the tone of paragraphs 1 and What does Hurston's tone reveal about the way she sees herself?

2. State the main idea of paragraph 6. What criticism is implied by the author's statement?

3. Reread paragraph 7. Consider the lines, "Slavery is the price I paid for civilization, and the choice was not with me. It is a bully adventure and worth all

that I have paid through my ancestors for it." Explain what is unusual about Hurston's tone. What effect might this comment have on an African-American reader? A white reader?

4. Describe the two responses that are contrasted in paragraph 13. What does this contrast imply about the differences between whites and blacks?

Haow does shakespeare use of supernatural to create suspence in macbeth

Which of the following words in bold means “to put before something else”? a) the broken device sat unused in a box. b) jose wanted to defermaking a decision about college until the spring. c) ashok’s counsel was to go to the store tomorrow. d) i would prefer to go to a movie this weekend instead of the play.

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.